San Gimignano
Beijing
Les Moulins
Habana
Roma
Sao Paulo
Paris
Alejandro Campins Fleita (Manzanillo, Cuba 1981) lives and works between Havana and Madrid. He studied at "El Alba" Professional Academy of Fine Arts in Holguin (2000) and the Higher Institute of Arts (ISA) in Havana (2009). Campins' paintings, drawings and photographs explore the genre of landscape and places with a strong emotional charge that challenge our perception of space and time.
In 2019 he was part of the Cuban Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale and of the XIII Havana Biennial.
Among his solo exhibitions, we mention: Sucedáneos, Galleria Continua, Paris (2024); Memoria oculta, Fondation Brownstone, Paris, France (2023); Distancia interna, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy (2022); Perpetuate-dislocate-perpetuate, Fondazione Giuliani, Italy (2021); Miedo a la muerte es miedo a la verdad, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba (2019); Public Declaration, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy (2017); City of Queen Anne´s Lace (Duo Show), Wasserman Projects, Detroit, Michigan (2017); Los ojos de la percepción, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba (2016) and Lapse, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York (2016).
Group exhibitions that feature his work include: Kaleisdoscopes: contemporains perspectives, Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, France (2024); Time for Change: Art and Social Unrest in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Tampa Museum of Art (2023); You Know Who You Are: Recent Acquisitions of Cuban Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, El Espacio 23, Miami (2023); Art as a thoroughfare, Wuhan Biennale, Wuhan (2022); In the Mind's Eye, Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami (2022), La Brèche, Galleria Continua, Paris (2021); Time for change: Art and social Unrest in the Jorge Perez Collection, El Espacio 23, Miami, Florida (2019); Buena Vista, Fondation Clément, Martinique, Martinique (2018); Pintar a contratiempo, Centro Hispanoamericano de Cultura, Havana, Cuba (2018); Edifice, Complex, Visionary, Structure, Sean Kelly gallery, New York, New York (2018); Las ciudades invisibles, Colegio de Arquitectos (UNAICC), Havana, Cuba (2017); Cuba mi amor, Franco Parenti Theater, Milan, Italy (2017); Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (2017); Art x Cuba, Contemporary Perspectives since 1989. Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany (2017); Overseas, Halle 14, Center for Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany (2017); Cuban art now, Singer Museum, Laren, The Netherlands (2017); Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950, MFAH, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (2017); Wild Noise/Ruido Salvaje, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (2017); Q&A, MDC Museum of Art and Design, Miami, Florida (2016); Nido sin árbol, Colegio de Arquitectos (UNAICC), Havana, Cuba (2016); Cuban Forever Revisited, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio, Illinois (2016); Transhumans, CAB Art Center, Brussels, Belgium (2016); Q&A, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Cultural Center, Washington DC, Washington (2015); Anclados en el territorio, Galleria Continua, Havana, Cuba (2015); To break the walls, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba (2013); Gulliver Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany (2012); XII Cairo Biennial, El Cairo, Egypt (2010).
Campins’s work is part of the following international public and private collections: Fondazione Giuliani, Italy; National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana; Voorlinden Museum, Wassenaar, Hollanda; Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), Paris; Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio, USA; Daros – Latinamerica Collection, Zurich; Ella Cisneros Fontanals Collection; AMA Foundations. Chile; Jorge Pérez Collection, Miami; among others.
2009
Graduated from the Higher Institute of Arts (ISA) in Havana, Cuba
2000
Graduated from “El Alba”, Professional Academy of Fine Arts in Holguín, Cuba
2024
Sucedáneos, Galleria Continua, Paris, France
2023
Memoria oculta, Fondation Brownstone, Paris, France
2022
Distancia interna, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
Perpetuate - Dislocate- Perpetuate, Fondazione Giuliani, Roma, Italy
2020
Dibujos. Exhibition by Alejandro Campins & Carlos Garaicoa, Open Studio Carlos Garaicoa, Madrid, Spain
2018
Miedo a la muerte es miedo a la verdad, Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba
2017
Declaración Pública Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
City of Queen Anne´s Lace (Duo Show) Wasserman Projects, Detroit, USA
2016
Los ojos de la percepción Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba
Lapse Sean Kelly Gallery. NY. USA
2015
Les Moulins Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, Boissy Le Châtel, France
City of the Dead Servando Gallery, Havana, Cuba
2013
Nómada (Nomad). Liceo Carmelita, C. del Carmen, Mexico
Herencia (Heritage) Knoerle & Beattig contemporary fine art, Winterthur, Switzerland
Reliquia (Relic) Raymaluz Art gallery, Madrid, Spain
Li-4 ZonaMACO, DF, Mexico
2012
Patria (Homeland) Factoría Habana, Havana, Cuba
2011
La bondad del desconocido (The Kindness of the unknown) Servando Gallery, Havana, Cuba
2009
En la cola del cometa (In the comet’s tail) Luz y Suarez del Villar Gallery. Madrid, Spain
Cuando el sol es enorme (When the sun is enormous) Servando Gallery, Havana, Cuba
2008
Project “Inventario” (Inventory). Fundación Lugwid, Cuba
Corta Distancia (Short distance) Casa de la Cultura of Plaza, Havana, Cuba
2022
La naturaleza de las cosas, Plusartis, Madrid, Spain
2021
Eyes in the sky, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
Truc a faire, Galleria Continua, Paris, France
La Brèche, Galleria Continua, Paris, France
Latin America, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
2020
Mirador Circular, Galleria Continua, Havana, Cuba.
Cuba Talks, Peyrassol, France.
Cuba mi amor, Galerie Miterrand, Paris, France.
2019
Time for change: Art and social Unrest in the Jorge Perez Collection, El Espacio 23, Miami, USA.
Poéticas del paisaje, Galería Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain
13 Bienal de la Habana, Havana, Cuba
58 La Biennale di Venezia, Cuban Pavilion, Venice, Italy
2018
Pintar a contratiempo, Centro Hispanoamericano de cultura, Havana, Cuba
EDIFICE, COMPLEX, VISIONARY, STRUCTURE, Gallery Sean Kelly, New York, USA.
Otro amanecer en el trópico - Contemporary Cuban artistic practices, Reinbeckhallen, Berlino, Germany
Ola Cuba! Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille, France
Positivo con Positivo, Servando Gallery, Havana, Cuba
2017
Cuban Art Now SINGER Museum Laren, laren, The Netherlands
Las Ciudades Invisibles, Unión Nacional de Arquitectos e Ingenieros de la Construcción de Cuba (UNAICC), Havana, Cuba
Overseas Halle 14 – Center for Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany
Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950. MFAH, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Wild Noise/Ruido Salvaje The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, USA
Cuban Art Now SINGER Museum Laren, laren, The Netherlands
Overseas Halle 14 – Center for Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany
Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950. MFAH, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Wild Noise/Ruido Salvaje The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, USA
2016
Q&A MDC Museum of Art and Design, Miami, USA
Nido sin árbol UNAICC, Colegio de Arquitectos de Cuba, Havana, Cuba
Cuban Forever Revisited Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Transhumans CAB, Brussels, Belgium
Q&A MDC Museum of Art and Design, Miami, USA
2015
Q&A Cultural Center (IDB), Washington, USA
Anclados en el territorio Galleria Continua, Havana, Cuba
Between UNAICC, Colegio de Arquitectos de Cuba, Havana, Cuba
2014
En este lugar, en este momento Servando Gallery, Havana, Cuba
V Salon de Arte Contemporaneo Cubano (V Cuban Contemporary Arts Show) Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba
A este lado del paraíso National Library, Havana, Cuba
Agua Salada (Salty Water) Hispanic – American Cultural Center, Havana, Cuba
Avalancha (Avalanche) Villamanuela Gallery, Havana, Cuba
2013
Para quebrar los muros (To break the walls) Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba
Memento Mori/Joie de Vivre Servando Gallery, Havana, Cuba
The New Painters. Saltfineart gallery. Laguna beach, USA
Cuba Contemporaine. Arte de la grande ile des Caraibes Centre Culturel du Manoir de Cologny, Geneva, Switzerland
2012
Gulliver Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany
Premio Maretti, Wilfredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba
Heavy and Happy Painters Morro – Cabaña, (Collateral) 11th Havana Biennale, Cuba
HB Pabexpo, (Colateral) 11Havana Biennale, Cuba
CUBA, Saltfineart Gallery, L.A, USA
2011
Art Position 11, Halle Nautic Technic, Salavaux, Switzerland
Junge Szene Kuba Cultural Center "Pasinger Fabrik", Munich, Germany
Torbellino (Whirl) Havana Gallery, Havana, Cuba
2010
12 Cairo Biennale Egypt
Artbo Bogotá, Colombia
11th Portugal Biennale Portugal
Text to Speech: El otro Lenguaje (ContemporaneaCuba 2010) Bonelli LAB, Canneto Sull’Oglio, Mantova, Italy
En la tierra no hay nada gratis (There’s nothing for free on earth) Luz y Oficio Gallery, Havana, Cuba
Trazos (Sketches) Servando Gallery, Havana, Cuba
Bomba (Bomb) Wilfredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba
2009
Clonfluencias, Inside II. Natural Hispanic Cultural Center. Art Museum Albuquerque, USA
Arteamericas Miami, FL, USA
Artmadrid Madrid, Spain
2008
V Salon de Arte Contemporaneo Cubano (V Cuban Contemporary Arts Show) Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba
BLA,BLA,BLA Servando Gallery, Havana, Cuba
Jai Lou Lait DPM Gallery, Guayaquil, Ecuador
Crónicas del Entusiasmo (Chronicles of the enthusiasm) Luz y Suarez del Villar Gallery, Madrid,Spain
Plastilina (Plasticine) Hispanic – American Cultural Center, Havana, Cuba
Far Far Away Co-Lab, Copenhagen, Denmark
2007
Vostok Repairing workshop Vostok 1 and Luz y Oficio Gallery, Havana, Cuba
La Cosecha (The harvest) Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba
Situación Construida (Built Situation), exhibition “Cabeza de Vena” (Vein Head) , Higher Institute of Arts, Havana, Cuba
- Voorlinden Museum, Wassenaar, Holland
- Fondazione Giuliani, Italy
- Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba
- Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), Paris, France
- Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Daros – Latinamerica Collection Zurich, Switzerland
- Ella Cisneros Fontanals Collection, Miami, USA
- AMA Foundations, Vitacura, Chile
- Jorge Pérez Collection, Miami, USA
